In recent years. the number of eligible children has declined due in part to the effects of permissive abortion and the fact that many teenage moms opt to keep their child. Many prospective. adoptive parent. now look overseas to adopt and the number of foreignborn children eligi. ble is rising. The Immigration and Na tionality Act. as amended. governs th( admission into the United States oi foreignborn children. Foreign adop tions generally take place in one o two ways. The first method Is for th parents to work through a U.S.-based international. childplacing agency which usually completes the adoptiol in the childs home country and bring the child to the United States.
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